Problem with getting the right name once lucid

Hello everyone. This is my first post in this forum.

Ive had lucid dreams for years - but never really knew if they were important, and never really had much control over them other than to fly around alot when trouble is approaching (seem to have alot of dreams about people trying to 'catch' me.) The dreams were always off and on, nothing too regular.

In the last week Ive been trying to have them and trying to get as lucid as possible. (i tend to have really vivid dreams and wake up in the middle of them often so I am able to recall them pretty easily) At the moment, Im having 2 or 3 lucid dreams per day that I can recall, but I have really really minimal control over them, and I have to really concentrate to make things happen, which usually results in my waking up. But Iva had good recall, so my dream journal is pretty explicit.

Anyway.

I am new to lucid dreaming, but I am not new to metaphysics and things of this nature. Im very skilled at manipulating energy while Im awake - and my interest in lucid dreaming is to see what I can develop while sleeping.

Heres my issue:

I feel a need to contact a specific person in dream. (I would not share a dream with him without permission, so no need to warn me on ethics)

But the problem is, as soon as Im lucid I have a thought of 'ok call out for X' .. but I keep flubbing the name for some reason.

The name Im actually thinking first is my primary spirit guides name - and we dont typically communicate in dreams, and I would know if he wanted to contact me this way.

Once Ive said his name and realized its not the name I wanted to say.. I start trying to say names that start with the same letter.. but they are not it.

Its very odd. And by the time I get the name correct, Im awake.

Very annoying!!!

:mad:

The only rational explanation I can think of is that because the person I want to contact has a name that is not English, and the first letter is pronounced like a W instead of a J so I think Im seeing the name, as opposed to hearing it in my mind, and for some reason pronouncing it like a J..

Has anyone else ever had a problem like this??

I know theres a forum that includes dream sharing.. but my issue isnt really dream sharing.. its just mispronouncing this name.. I feel really strongly that if i can just get myself to say the name correctly, I will whoosh straight to the person I want to contact.

I go to sleep saying it in my mind.. dont know what else to try. Was thinking maybe I should visualize it with the English letters for the sound the name makes.. maybe that would help?

Any advice appreciated.

Thank you very much.

:wink:

No comments, huh.

Well, I will post my update anyway.

Believe it or not I was actually successful in finidng the person in question last night while in a low level lucid state. (I dont think ive ever gotten above low level, really)

I had the same problem, with calling out my spirit guides name first, but then I got the correct name the second time.

What was really odd though - while he was in the body of a 30 something year old (which he is) his face looked almost exactly as it did when he was about 14. But everything else, including his personality, was that of the 30 something year old. But I had a very difficult time accepting him with this boyish face, even though I knew he wasnt 14 in the dream..

I didnt ask him if he was lucid. Im not sure he was. But shortly after we made contact, I was no longer in control of my dream and I think I was no longer lucid - he morphed into a big creepy person of an entirely different race and I remember accepting this - so Im pretty sure I wasnt lucid. We had an argument and I woke up.

Guess Ill keep working on it. :shakehead2: